VII. English Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Grade 8

7 Any of us might happen to see a cat pull feathers through a birdcage; but when Eli Whitney saw that, he got the idea of how to comb cotton mechanically. Hence the cotton gin. “Some people are just more likely to pay attention when they see something,” says Rini Paiva of the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio. “If ................
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